A random selection of photographs showing wildlife visiting our nursery and garden.

Butteflies and Moths

Scabiosa perfecta Blue with ‘Clouded Yellow’
Stokesia ‘Purple Parasols’ with Brimstone
Verbena bonariensis with Large Skipper
Comma on Grapes
Peacocks on Liatris spicata
Gatekeeper on Meadowsweet
Comma on Verbena bonariensis
Painted Lady on Knautia macedonica ‘Red Knight’
Red Admiral on Sedum ‘Matrona’
Orange Tip on Cardamine pratensis
Scabiosa cretica with Brimstone
Small Copper on Aster frikartii ‘Monch’
Silver Washed Fritillary on Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
Meadow Brown on Bramble
Small Skipper on Bird’s Foot Trefoil
Red Admiral on Verbena bonariensis
Small Copper onSedum erythrostictum ‘Mediovariegatum’
Six Spot Burnet on Betony
Brimstone on Lythrum

Bees…

Eremurus with bumblebee
Echinacea purpurea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ and honeybee
Bee enjoying Sedum erythrostictum ‘Mediovariegatum’
Echinacea with bee
Honeybee on Helenium ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’
Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’ with bee
Bumblebee on Helenium ‘Butterpat’
Salvia sclarea ‘Turkestanica’ with bumblebee
Eryngium x zabelii ‘Big Blue’ with honeybee

..and Others

White garden crab spider on Zantedechia
Common Darter on Blackthorn
Crab Spider in Digitalis ‘Snow Thimble’
Crab Spider in Digitalis ‘Snow Thimble’
Bee Fly on Pulmonaria Diana Clare
Limnanthes with Oedemera nobilis
Leucanthemum with wasp beetle
Bee Fly on Pulmonaria Diana Clare
Eryngium x zabelii ‘Big Blue’ with soldier beetles
Nesting Wren